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Friday, February 24, 2012

Giveaway: The Fanciest Sewing Kit Ever!

Readers, I have such a lovely giveaway for you today! I was contacted by the folks at Kaufmann Mercantile, a purveyor of "carefully selected, high-quality products, and a blog about product design, art, manufacturing and materials." Well, they have selected a high-quality product that I think will interest you very much, readers. It's the Merchant & Mills Sewing Notions Set, a high-end, beautifully-designed box of fine sewing tools.

The $75 kit includes the following (I've included almost the whole description, because it's quite titillating):

25 finest handsewing needles, all sharps, but with assorted lengths and gauges for different types of cloth.Black metal, wide bow scissors that
are sharp from joint to tip. The beautiful black and white tape measure is
made in Germany, and measures out 60 inches on one side and 152
centimeters on the other. Soft and pliable, but stiff enough not to get
tangled. This waxy tailor’s chalk is the same one used
on London’s famed Saville Row — where absolutely every seam and cut is
taken seriously. It’s beige for visibility, brushes off easily and won’t stain your fabric.
Use this to mark out patterns or draw lines for sewing and cutting
guides. Tailor’s beeswax
is the unsung hero of sewing. Run your thread through this pure, 100%
beeswax to make it stronger and last longer. Use it for the hard-working
thread on buttons and it’ll be a much longer time before it needs
replacing. Rub the end of a thread on it to make it much easier to put
through the eye of needle. Made by the same manufacturers who supply
Saville Row. This steel tailor’s thimble
is the sturdiest you’ll find. It’s open at the top so you can feel the
fabric with your finger. These are vintage deadstock thimbles — among
the last to be made in Britain. A box of versatile, all-important dressmaking pins
to make sure your sewing and cutting is accurate. You can’t see the
difference with the naked eye between a high quality, sharply-pointed,
smoothly polished pin, and a cheap one — but it will show in snags and
runs in your fabric. The most avid sewers know that pins aren’t
something to skimp on. This is seam ripper
gets the job done when you need to open up a seam for alterations or
mend a mistake (it happens to the best of us). It’s sharpened only at
the bottom of the curve so you won’t accidentally nick the fabric as
you tear out the thread. The pressed metal threader is
made of sturdy steel with a good, stiff loop that will find its way
quickly through the eye of a needle. It’s the last one you’ll ever own.

Kaufmann Mercantile is providing one kit to a lucky reader! All you have to do is comment here by the end of the day Monday, 2/27. All countries eligible. The only thing I ask is that you either include our email address in your comment, or make sure that your profile links back to some way I can contact you.

Wow, fanciest kit ever, indeed. I have a nice length of English wool that will be a coat someday ... how cool would it be to tailor it with the same stuff they use on Savile Row? lol janenger at yahoo dot com.

I could sure use some good pins and handsewing needles...all the rest is uber fabulous goodies! I am so jealous that it is so expensive to buy normally...maybe I will ask for it as a Christmas present if I don't win.

I enjoy reading your blog and I've always wanted to tell you that I have 2 grey kitties that look just like Henry. One of my kitties is named Gertie. We named her way before I started to read your blog, but I still find it a funny coincidence.

Oh my, lust is definitely the only way to describe how I feel about this kit! What a fabulous giveaway. The fact that the thimble is deadstock makes me want it even more... jillboruff [at] gmail [dot] com

This is truly a remarkable sewing kit. I have to admit its that thimble that really gets me, amazing! (I'd feel so posh mending my husband's clerics with a Saville Row thimble.) Thanks for the great offering and thanks again for your wonderful blog!

Wow very cool! I don't usually enter many giveaways because I'm not totally interested in them, but this is way too good to pass up. If you go to my blog, my email is at the top right (but I'll put it here too, molly.toferet@gmail.com)